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Last night, my family was playing a trivia with buzzers, like a game show.  One of the multiple choice questions was ‘Who is this man?’,  with a picture of Nelson Mandela.  I think the other choices were Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, and Bob Marley. My mom, aunt, and I got it, but my fifteen year-old-cousin [...]

Yesterday was my grandmother’s birthday.  At this point, I have no idea where I’ll be at thirty.  Hopefully not hating my life.  Eighty-eight to me right now just a really high number, not even a blip on my mental radar. Tomorrow’s my mother’s birthday.  There will be dinner at my grandmother’s and other Wednesday things.  [...]

– Wait, P. Diddy‘s an actor now? –  How is it my thumb nails are always longer than my other fingernails? – Where does Jenny Lewis get her clothes and do they come in my size? – Why is it that short stories hold my attention less than full length novels? – Why does Jack Nicholson [...]

Driving down Route 119, I can see words on the sign for the local drive-in.  This is odd, because it usually only has messages on it from April to October, broadcasting the double features of the week and the Sunday flea market.  I slow down and squint to see:    I wrote a blog entry last July [...]

These past two weeks have just been emotionally up, down, sideways, back-ways, front-ways, inside and out.  It’s made me exhausted and anxious.  I need this weekend more than most.  Is it just me, or has Jack Johnson  finally ‘really’ exploded?  His song “If I Had Eyes” is all over the modern rock station.  He’s name dropped all [...]

The modern Greek scupltures.

The writers strike is over… which means… the Office is back on April 10th! Tina Fey hosting SNL this week AND Ellen Page next week?  SNL may not suck for two weeks in a row.  I wish I could have seen the show done at the Upright Citizens Brigade stage with Michael Cera. I wanted [...]

The glasses are fixed!  The people Lencrafters are clearly miracle workers.  It’s kind of a bummer to log onto to Facebook and see basically every status read “Sally Sunshine is out enjoying the SNOW DAY!!!!” when you just spent the entire day inside at work, worried you might not get home.  Just sayin’. And alright I [...]

I’ve been wearing glasses since I was seven.  In fifteen years, I’ve worn a wide variety of specs.  Everything from above-the-eyebrows early ’90s hotness, dorky wire frames with nose pads, to the thicker plastic frames that I currently favor.  I don’t know what it is about my tortoiseshell cats-eye pair.  There has to be some special metallic forces in [...]

One of the first blog entries I wrote here was about CoCo’s Cupcakes in Shadyside.  Last night, a couple friends and I stopped by.  There aren’t lot of places to go if one of your friends isn’t quite 21 yet.  We didn’t want to bowl or go to the movies, we just wanted to chill.  CoCo’s [...]